Go on and give us the short list.

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Everything, actually!

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I think everything is too much of a broad stroke, who doesn't like G1 or animated?

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There are plenty of people who hate Animated. They are dumb and we should hate them, but they exist.

There's probably a few who aren't too fond of G1, either. Back when BW was new, it had a young fanbase who got all mad when the second season started linking everything to all this boring stuff from before they were born. Oh, I wish those ezboards were still around...

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That sounds amazing, I'd love to see some hating on the old school

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Galasso is a Hydra cell leader! And we all know how you get promoted in Hydra....

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Sleeping with Bob Agent of Hydra!Lady Hydra?

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"Avoid Captain America"?

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no logo, but BM Cheetor got some Titanium love last year.

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Didn't the box have the BM Maximal logo?

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Cheetor has the logo on his belly. That post should have read "No logo? But BM Cheetor got some Titanium love last year." Punctuation!

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As I recall, Titanium Cheetor even had a sculpted BM Maximal sigil for his display stand's nameplate. I believe he and The Fallen were the only Titaniums to get non-Autobot/Decepticon nameplates.

- FFN

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are you gonna go all sociopolitical on us?

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I'm not really sure what you're talking about. I've just been having fun being silly!

Is this one of those "things"?

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oh, I was worried you were gonna try to make some kind of commentary on the state of the economy and have the staff of shortpacked! drive out to california looking for farm work ala Grapes of Wrath.

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Has it really come to the point where even mentioning the economic realities people are facing is a politically-charged commentary? That's kind of sad.

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No one doing any Christmas shopping at all is an "economic reality"?
Hehehe

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Yes, that's absolutely exactly what I was just saying. Thank you. Your ability to pull bullshit out of thin air and attribute it to other people is breathtaking.

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Sorry. Kinda got that message from your comic of an abandoned store. My mistake.

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Yes. Friday's strip featured the words "economic reality." It said in bold text across the face of the strip that "this is happening right now, for real!"

Really, this is fucking making me sick. I get shit for mentioning that some banks are failing. I get shit for mentioning that it would be hard to find another job because of rising unemployment. Because, apparently, the idea that EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE is some crazy dogmatic thing that some people cling to like the craziest of religions.

So, ha, early forecasts suggested Black Friday would be smaller than in years past, so wouldn't it be funny if no one showed up to Shortpacked! that day? No, it's apparently not funny. Not funny at all. YOUR ECONOMIC DOGMA IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. Paying attention to the world around me is SACRILEGE. I have INSULTED YOU, apparently, by even remotely suggesting anything counter to "EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE."

And, what, it's not like I'm some mudraker, out to set the world right by putting out terrible penetrating truths. I did a joke in an Internet comic about nobody showing up to one store for Black Friday because the economy is bad. ...oh, am I on notice because I put the words "is bad" after "economy"? Is that, itself, going to get me on the EVIL SOCIAL COMMENTARY list?

So, yes. Fine. I give up. I am TOTALLY saying that FOR REAL people are not showing up at all to retail stores. You TOTALLY CAUGHT ME.

Asshole.

Edited at 2008-12-03 12:32 am (UTC)

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Um. Well, I wasn't being, you know, serious...
I apologize for upsetting you. Truly.

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Re-reading your comments again, I still can't see them as unserious, but I'll take your word for it. I'm sorry for my outburst. I get a lot of dumb email.

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It's all good. I guess I forgot a smiley or two. :(

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I wasn't insulting you or condemning you for it. I just said "you're not getting all sociopolitical on us, are you?"

You could've said "yes" and I would've been cool with that.

Frankly I think it's great when people who have the ability to spread some kind of message in mass media take the opportunity to do more than make jokes about how different men and women are or how silly kids are from a dad's perspective

HA freaking ha Bill Engval. I get it. I got it when Tim Allen did it ten years ago.

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Eh, reality is sucky boring and awful, you write a comic that people use to escape from reality, you injected reality into said comic at a moment when in addition to being sucky boring and awful, reality is ALSO a horrifying mass of pulsating unknowable dread that most people are terrified to even think about looking at lest the gasping beast take notice their presence and reach out to ensnare them in one of its innumerable multitude of slime-coated appendages.

I'm just saying, I can see where people might get tweaky over it.

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"Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, Mike'll be there holding that turkey leg a little bit higher.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, Mike'll be there. Laughing.

Mike'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. [Oddly enough, this one didn't need editing.]

Mike'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready but they're trapped in a well, and when the people are eatin' the pesticide-tainted stuff they raise and livin' in the asbestos-lined houses they build - Mike'll be there, too."

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Dear Willis David Guy:

Please make this comic.

YOU KNOW IT MUST BE DONE.

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No! Not another faction to collect! I'm a fan of Beast Machines, so I welcome these! Cheetor is decent, but Tankor is teh win!

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I smell a storyline...
somebody needs to update walkypedia, I think the last time was the gospel of faz.

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I love these BM guys as well. Honestly, I'm really hoping we get a Botanica out of these guys. I mean, if Dispensor can get one, why can't Botanica?

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I was wondering who I would want versus a BM Megatron, rejecting Rattrap since the first RH Megs came with a Rattrap, but I like this idea.

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I'd want a Noble-Savage paired with Thrust. Cyclepod!

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BUT WHICH IS HIS ROBOT MODE?!?!

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I'd say Noble. It's the one he uses most frequently, he's got opposable thumbs and the ability to speak, and he stands upright.

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That would also be my answer-- but his tech-spec (which always show thwe robot mode of the character) shows him in dragon-mode.

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Eh. It's a FIBRIR kind of thing. Since when do tech specs match up with the canon anyway?

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So is Silverbolt's robot mode his condor mode, then?

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Why not use both forms as figures? Noble Megatron versus Rattrap, he did throw him out of the control harness after all, and Savage Beast Changer versus Thrust?

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we can have one of them against botanica...
I can't remember if thats canon or not?

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I would love a Diagnostic Drone out of it, but it isn't even a Transformer.

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He is evil Rhinox. Of this there is no question.

I like your idea of a list. I want a TF version of "The Most."

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The second Eaton has at last risen to take his rightful place as ruler of Shortpacked!

SteveC

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Only Robin could assault someone and have it result in a resounding "WANG!"

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Well, her and Captain America...

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That was WANK

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Hope you've at least made a phone call on that Animated Skywarp. Then again, I could see Hasbro doing the cheap sort of shipping, where you package only gets sent your way if the Post Office happens to be headed your way. Otherwise, it sits in said Post Office until the end of all things.

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It's FedEx, which is the opposite of cheap.

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Took me forever to get my replacement TFA Magnus.

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